This role combines engineering expertise, field validation, and collaboration with asset management and maintenance teams to ensure continued reliability and safety of our client’s transmission grid.

• Perform structural engineering assessments of damaged, corroded, or deformed lattice steel towers and components.
• Review and analyze inspection reports, photographs, and field measurements to determine structural capacity and fitness for service.
• Conduct structural modeling, load assessments, and failure analysis using applicable tools and methods (e.g., STAAD, PLS-TOWER, or hand calcs).
• Develop engineering recommendations for repair, reinforcement, or replacement of damaged tower components in accordance with SCE standards and CPUC GO-95.
• Assist field inspectors and construction crews by providing technical guidance on-site as needed.
• Review historical drawings, loading conditions, and modification records to evaluate structural performance and conformance.
• Collaborate with civil, electrical, and transmission line engineers to ensure holistic and safe engineering solutions.
• Participate in root cause failure analysis, engineering review boards, and lessons-learned activities.
• Maintain clear, traceable engineering documentation and contribute to technical reports and work packages.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in civil or structural engineering.
• 3–7 years of experience in structural analysis and design, preferably in utility or transmission structures.
• Working knowledge of lattice steel tower behavior, load paths, wind and seismic loading, and corrosion impacts.
• Familiarity with relevant standards and codes: CPUC GO-95, ASCE, AISC, IEEE, NESC.
• Proficiency with structural analysis software (e.g., STAAD, SAP2000, RISA, or equivalent).
• Ability to interpret field inspection data, engineering drawings, and specifications.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred

• California Professional Engineer (PE) license or ability to obtain within 12 months.
• Experience working with utilities, particularly SCE or within California.
• Experience with PLS-TOWER, PLS-CADD, or transmission line structural modeling tools.
• Familiarity with asset management systems, GIS platforms, and inspection programs.
• Understanding of corrosion mitigation, fatigue, and aging infrastructure evaluation.

E2 Consulting Engineers, LPoffers an excellent benefits package including health, dental, vision, and life insurance, 401(k) with employer match, paid time off.

Salary range for this position is $90,000 - $130,000.The starting salary will be commensurate with skill, education, experience, and working environment.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment and uses standard office equipment such as computers and phones.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to sit/stand for up to 8 hours per day.
• Ability to move freely for up to 8 hours per day.

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Please no solicitation of any kind from agencies, staffing, or recruiting firms.